Islamic Hearings: Pete King Is No Joe McCarthy

There was no foaming-at-the-mouth racism for King’s critics. Instead, King repeatedly reassured the audience that most Muslims are patriotic Americans. If you believed the advance warnings, you probably thought Rep. Peter King (R-NY) used Wednesday’s congressional hearing to continue his push to …

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Written by Fred Messner on Wednesday June 15, 2011

Left and Right Switch Sides in the Media Wars

Have we passed into some kind of space-time discontinuity , where prominent newscasters are right-wing and the people enraged by media bias left-wing? Have we passed into some kind of space-time discontinuity , where all the most prominent newscasters are right-wing - and the people most …

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Written by David Frum on Tuesday March 29, 2011